tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29790258070687649802024-02-20T00:59:48.137-08:00deirdre nelsonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861512136291699379noreply@blogger.comBlogger241125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979025807068764980.post-7112772698408831802016-10-20T06:47:00.000-07:002016-10-25T05:01:38.574-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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of produce 'Made in Easterhouse' and care and</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> generosity </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">shown to the participants through Connect Trust. As a visitor to the allotments I was made most welcome and on each visit, left with gifts of plants, fruit and veg. In exchange I returned to show the guys how to make chutneys and jams. Jams and chutneys were tasted at housing association meetings and the activity</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> not only provided a social learning experience but a new produce celebrating the allotments which could be sold at community fairs. A Connect Trust volunteer began to design a new label and the Made in Easterhouse lable incorporated. </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition golden raspberries contributed to cake filling in preparation for a local charity sale and allotment potatoes and onions were transformed into Potato Pakora by Jason. Small acts of generosity and exchange have formed an essential part of the project. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Colin Tennant and Jason Singh (collaborators on the project) both have visited and been inspired by the allotments through photography and sound. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Throughout Jasons time involved with Made in Easterhouse, we have walked and talked through ideas of micro/micro in Easterhouse exploring ways we could draw attention to the detail of a large and vibrant area and community. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In initial focus on Making in Easterhouse hand made objects were documented but the idea is explored further though focus on nature made and formed in Easterhouse. Focus shifted to the often overlooked aspects of the area such as plants or lichen. Field recordings through a hydrophones and Binaural recorder picked up the minutiae</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: "arial" , , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of Auchinlea Pond or the sounds of Canaries in Wellhouse allotment</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. You can find out more on Jasons blog </span><a href="http://jasonsinghthing.com/" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">here</span></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and watch a </span><a href="http://jasonsinghthing.com/blog/2016/10/18/macro-photos-dawn-chorus-field-recordings-of-easterhouse" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">slow film</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"> of his macro photographs and recorded sounds. This combines beautiful images and field recordings from our early morning visit to the dawn chorus back in March at </span><a href="http://scotland.forestry.gov.uk/visit/cardowan"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Cardowan Moss.</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Through initial conversations with older people in Easterhouse, many spoke of family parties where family members 'do a turn' or a party piece through song or word. This sparked ideas of creating a cross generational event where celebrating local talent of many sorts. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Exploring Made in Easterhouse further we visited the Musical Group at Kelvin College who are a group of young people who meet each Tuesday and Wednesday. We were made feel very welcome by those attending and came across Jack Bestow, a young musican in the group. As a result Jason spent some time recording with Jack and the results can be found </span><span style="color: #ea9999;"><a href="http://jasonsinghthing.com/">here</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am currently artist in residence at Platform Arts in Easterhouse working with older groups across the housing associations in the area. Research into both past and present aspects of Easterhouse is leading towards a range of digitally printed tablecloths for a spring tea dance at the venue. Social media is playing a large part in documenting creativity in the area through @map_making instagram and twitter accounts and the hashtag #madeinEasterhouse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">I will be doing a lunch time talk on <strong style="border: 0px none; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday 22 February 2016, 13:15-14:00</strong>Bourdon lecture theatre, Bourdon building, 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3 6RQ</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The
two names of the island group Hirte and St Kilda, have aroused
discussion and controversy for over 200 years and much studying of maps
and books can be done to investigate their origins. There are many myths
surrounding the origins of the name St Kilda but one fact is clear.
There is no ‘Saint’ Kilda. <br />
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On a modern day pilgrimage in search of ‘Saint’ Kilda, I travelled to
the St Kildas of Scotland, Australia and New Zealand. The resulting
works reward and celebrate ‘saints’ met along the way. Silver Coins from
Scotland, Australia and New Zealand have been repurposed into medals.
These are combined with wool from each St Kilda region (from Soay and
merino sheep) and Kildas sand embedded in bio resin. The ongoing project
links both past and present, north and south and the people who inhabit
the Kildas. The exhibition will travel to Comar on the Isle of Mull,
Glasgow School of Art and Barony Centre West Kilbride.<br />
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The Kildas was part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. The
Cultural Programme is a partnership between the Glasgow 2014 Organising
Committee, Glasgow Life and Creative Scotland </span></span> <br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>This is a story of an archipelago named for a saint who didn't exist,
which became the prison of a woman whose funeral preceded her death,
who gave her name to a boat which sank after sailing to a nation that
hadn't been born and whose first inhabitants it didn’t acknowledge. A
ship of fools, maybe. A ship of storytellers…The islands were named for
the non existent saint; the woman for the islands; the boat for the
woman, and 2 suburbs in distant parts of the Commonwealth were named for
the boat.<br />
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These islands, these suburbs, these stories are spun from three of the
six St Kildas on earth. Each is a real place of stone and sea, a place
where indigenous languages shaped to their landscapes were eroded by a
rising tide of English. And each is simultaneously a fabrication:
misnamed for something that came before it; a progressively receding
echo of an error which carried a myth on currents that bore the Scottish
diaspora away from home during the Clearances of the 19th century.<br />
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It's made by weavers of textile, song and sound, and the form it takes
here tonight is just one of the many forms it's taken over thousands of
years. History is an unbroken current of material and energy flows, and
in those flows vortices sometimes form and these spinning cycles, these
Kildas, these loops in time, have a structure which is complex,
ubiquitous, beautiful, temporary and true.<br />
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The world spins. We spin. Migrating seabirds like the Arctic tern loop
the spinning world. On St Kilda, men with loops or snares caught
seabirds on the high cliffs and stacs. Loops of wool made socks and
sweaters, with patterns, like tunes, carried from island to island, in
Gaelic bho ghlùin gu glùin, from knee to knee. Knitted things pass like
stories from person to person, like fishing nets, hand over hand,
constantly maintained, mended, adapted - navigational lines linking
place to place, and bringing us home again.<br />
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The word 'yarn' is connected to the Old Norse garn or gut. There are 74
Gaelic words for yarn and the winding of yarn. Human beings have been
spinning yarn from fibre for 20,000 years, spinning yarns from their
guts for at least as long, binding meaning into their lives by looping
the past into the present, the world within into the world beyond.
Wherever we are on earth, there's a St Kilda behind us and a St Kilda
ahead; mythical St Kildas we have brought into being collaboratively,
through acts of place-making. Stories extend us, they strengthen and
connect us; they propel our migrations and loop us back into the places
we've left behind'<br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /> Many thanks to everyone who came along to <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=351164933346" href="https://www.facebook.com/thegladcafe">The Glad Cafe</a> for Sleeping Starfish (a work in progress event in collaboration with Inge Thomson.) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK1HAYF4FFE">Kerri Whiteside</a> of Flora and Fauna Scotland spoke to us about Marine
Protection, I presented recent work exploring bird data and knit and experimented with creating an animated backdrop for Inges performance. The projection played with ideas of graphs, coastlines and knitting patterns. Inge Thomson and Fraser Fifield
performed beautiful new music + all was BSL signed by Karen Forbes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">'Sleeping
Starfish </span></i><span lang="EN-US">is a work of environmental advocacy and a
love song to an island and its waters and its people. A couple of weeks ago
Deirdre steered me to a talk by the writer Taiye Selasi on identity and
belonging. ‘How can I come from a country?’ she asked. ‘How can a human being
come from a concept?’</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Fair Isle is not a concept, it’s a place. A
place of elemental forces and ragged boundaries, unprotected from fog, wind and
storm, but equally uninsulated from the actual rhythms and processes of this
world. You can love the concept of a nation, but you can only know a nation
through its real places and people – through embodied relationship, through a
sense of place, through intimacy with its patterns. ‘My experience’, said Taiye
Selasi, ‘is where I’m from.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Fair Isle’s patterns are changing – there
are new arrivals in its waters, new absences from its stacs and skies. But
there is always a thread on Fair Isle that knits sea to land and land to mind
and body in tradition, in memory and in practice. Resilience – that most
coveted attribute in our times – means adaptive capacity; maintaining identity
despite change. It’s a learned skill, and it lies in relationship. These makers
and maintainers share their experience of island resilience, so that, tonight, we
can all be from Fair Isle.;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Ruth Little 2015 </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /><br />Surrounded
by a relentless sea, Fair Isle is an island of strong traditions and
fierce beauty. Celebrating this, and running in support of the island's
bid for marine protected status, two artists are knitting together
waves of sound and yarn, stories and starfish. The
project also celebrates creative generations of Inges family through
stories, music and knit. Exploring coding and counting, both Inge and myself have been exploring the craft and ecology of Fair Isle. </span></span></span></div>
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into knitting patterns. The work is experimental at this stage but I hope to develop work which will become part of Inges performance.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Starfish will present a work in progress event. ( as part of Luminate Festival) 7 pm Glad Cafe
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This year I return to continue my research and refine ideas in a collaboration with Inge Thomson. Inge has been experimenting with translating the coding and pattern of Fair Isle knitting into sound and I have been very interested in the colour and softness of landscape, ecology and waters of Fair Isle. Gut weed coating the edges of the rock, graphs of bird sightings and sonagrams of seabirds are providing lots of ideas in digital print and stitch. </span></div>
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This weekend celebrates the finale of Creative Place and Serendipitous North residencies with Timespan Museum and Arts Centre in Helmsdale. I will hand over the tablecloth to the community and allow it to develop a life of its own , being adapted and changed over time. A set of T-towels printed with an Inventory of Making have been completed and will be for sale in Timespans shop. </span></span><br />
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666;">‘in my view, what continues to distinguish the crafts, to make them highly visible , is the care with which they have been made , the fact that they have been made by one human being for another , the individual take , the use of materials and the thoughtfulness of their design: design with attitude. And yes, the patient mastery of technique until it becomes second nature. The crafts have become a wide range of possibilities, a spectrum and the more inclusive and varied and versatile the better’</span></em><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-size: xx-small;">Christopher Frayling. </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: x-small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The power of Making. V& A Publishing and Crafts Council . Edited by Daniel Charney </em></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Rather than focusing solely on craft as a studio practice , I am more interested in Making in everyday lives and in exploring the often hidden making that goes on, those activities which are often not considered creative or artistic. The </span><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">m a p MAKING</strong><span style="color: #666666;"> project celebrates all types of making and mending in Helmsdale and explores places of making from armchairs to kitchen tables, sheds and crofts. I have been spotting ‘making’ in the village and documenting objects made through photography. This provides a beautiful visual resource of the making activity of the village. In addition an Inventory of making has been created which lists making I have discovered over my time here. This will highlight just how much creative activity goes on in the village and provides an entertaining read listing everything from loom bands to jam to 3D printed sheep! Word of each discovery is also put out there in the making world through twitter </span><a href="https://twitter.com/map_MAKING" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@map_MAKING</a><span style="color: #666666;">. This links Helsmdale to the wider Making community.</span></div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666;">“All of us can make. It is one of the strongest of human impulses and one of the most significant means of human expression. To some, making is the fountain that releases creative ideas; to others, making is about participating in society as well as defining personal identity. To most of those who make, though, it is likely that they do not think of it as creative activity. It is their way of making a living- an absolute necessity. The power of making, from the height of luxurious freedom to the depth of deprivation, is that it is something that people do.</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Over time I have been discovering all the fixing and making which goes on modestly behind closed doors. Spending time with established Making groups such as the Helmsdale Woodlanders and the Knitwits knitting group also have been inspiring. The ‘Woodies’ are<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> ‘a group of highly motivated and, it has to be said, eccentric volunteers learning the arts of traditional woodland ma<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nagement and greenwood skills, meeting on a regular basis and having a laugh as well as doing some hard graft’. </span></em><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The knitwits are</span><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a knitting club who meet each Tuesday to work on both individual and communal projects also. Some of the group are also working on the <a href="http://timespan.org.uk/map-making/www.scottishdiasporatapestry.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Diaspora Tapestry </a> which links with other stitchers worldwide. </span>There is much more to be discovered and my time on the residency is short but hopefully the project will provide a snapshot of how Helmsdale and many other villages are often undiscovered creative places.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Exploring maps in the archive I came across a map from 1907 which had been adjusted (in biro pen ) to add later buildings to the town. I began to think of how villages grow and change over time and that maps only provide a static moment in time. I developed ideas around a community map tablecloth which could remain in the village long after my residency and could be adjusted or added to through stitch. This would provide a map which would evolve through time and making and something useful for a very active community.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I worked on the map digitally and this was printed at Centre for Advanced Textiles at Glasgow School of Art. Julia Jappy the local tailoress finished the edges beautifully to make a tablecloth. The tablecloth has been to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Thyme.n.plaice" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thyme and Plaice café</a>, the community centre and P7 at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/helmsdale.primary?fref=ts" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.6999998092651px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">local school</a> have even added a few herring and salmon to the waters of Helsmdale.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">I basket</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">2 pairs of adults knitted slippers</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">2 spoons</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">2 walking sticks one short one long</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Knitted socks</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Knitted hats</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">1 jar of wild garlic and walnut pesto</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Rowan jelly</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Loom bands</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Papermache deer heads</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Rowan wedding platters</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Noble Fir 3 legged stool</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I white crochet blanket</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">4 3d printed sheep</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Steak pies</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Greenwood compost toilet in progress</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">70 delegate badges</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Crabapple and blackcurrant jam</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I cardboard prototype Viking helmet</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">3d printed Venus de Milo</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">3d printed Lief Errickson</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Sausages</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">3D printed Japanese theatre mask</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">3 Victoria sponges</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">1 powerpoint on Monastic North</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Scones</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Elderlower wine</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">1 knitted hotwater bottle cover in progress</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">3D printed gold sheep</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Pulled pork</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I cardigan</span></div>
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<i style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">"Made possible by Helmsdale’s success at the </span><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></span></i><i style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Creative Place Awards 2014,</span></span></i><i style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;">Serendipitous North is a creative mapping project and residency programme that celebrates the creativity and vibrancy of Helmsdale and its community, and inspires others with the unique culture of our small village in the far north of Scotland. </span></span></i><i style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">From Summer 2014 – Spring 2015, Serendiptous North has been investigating six creative artforms: writing, music, dancing, sculpture, painting, and craft. An established creative practitioner from within each field will be invited to work in Helmsdale over a period of 6 weeks. They will find and map the creative activity existing that already exists in Helmsdale related to their artform, making visible the often unseen and unrecognised creativity of Helmsdale’s inhabitants and celebrating the vibrancy of our community in the far north of Scotland. Inspired by the unique culture of our village, each resident will then create a new work that draws on all that they discover.</i><br />
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The Kildas <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #404040;">3rd February - 1 March. </span><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://www.thegladcafe.co.uk/"><span style="color: #e06666;">Glad Cafe</span></a> Glasgow </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">A modern day pilgrimage in
search of St Kilda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c01f25; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">*Saint : informal: a very kind, or patient person<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The two names of the
island group Hirte and St Kilda, have aroused discussion and controversy for
over 200 years and much studying of maps and books can be done to investigate
their origins. There are many myths surrounding the origins of the name St
Kilda but one fact is clear. There is no ‘Saint’ Kilda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">On a modern day pilgrimage
in search of ‘Saint’ Kilda, Deirdre travelled to the St Kildas of Scotland,
Australia and New Zealand. The resulting
works reward and celebrate ‘saints’ met along the way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Silver Coins from
Scotland, Australia and New Zealand have been repurposed into medals. These are combined with wool from each St
Kilda region (from Soay and merino sheep) and Kildas sand embedded in bio
resin. The project and making link both past and present, north and south and the people
who inhabit the Kildas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kildas was part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. The Cultural Programme
is a partnership between the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee, Glasgow Life
and Creative Scotland</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to all ‘saints’ for their stories, inspiration and hospitality, Hazel Raee for
spinning the Kildas wool and The School of Jewellery for expert jewellery
tuition. </span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">w. <a href="http://www.thekildas.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">www.thekildas.com</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">On 20th November at the Glad cafe I will be sharing The Kildas project as a work in progress talk . I will introduce 'saints' met on my travels and share the working processes involved in making crafted medals for each 'saint'. I have been working with coins from each area ( Scotland, New Zealand and Australia) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In August 2013 as part of Spincycle Skye with </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.samplercultureclash.org.uk/"><b>Sampler Culture Clash</b></a></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">, a group of unusual suspects gathered to perform at Skye Bike Fest. The sonic laboratory explored circular and periodic motion and all things that rotate, repeat, occillate and spin. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As lead artist on the Spin project with Atlas Arts and with previous knowledge and admiration for previous projects with Sampler Culture Clash, I developed ideas around a programme of events for the year long Spincycle programme. Atlas arts invited David Littler and Jason Singh from Sampler Culture Clash to spend a week long residency on Skye working with spinners , weavers, knitters, singers, musicians and cyclists from the island to create a new performance 'Spincycle - A sonic journey into the world of spin'. Spincycle was a journey around the island; of circular and periodic motion; of revolutions and reels; cycles and occilations and rotations; a meeting of cultures and people conne</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">cted through textiles and sound. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The project supported by Creative Scotland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Spincycle brought together </span><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://davidlittler.tumblr.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">David Littler</a><b>, </b><a href="http://www.jasonsinghmusic.com/"><b>Jason Singh</b></a>, </span></span><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.skyeweavers.co.uk/"><b>Skye Weavers</b></a></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">,</span></span><b><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://www.hectormacinnes.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hector Macinnes</a></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">, singer </span><b><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-mIC84KpiA">Anne Martin</a> </span></b></span><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for a performance at Skye Bike Fest. I joined the talented group and read a sock knitting pattern on stage during the performance. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">We were delighted with the</span> <a href="http://atlasarts.org.uk/events/spincycle-a-sonic-journey-into-the-world-of-spin/"><b><span style="color: #666666;">outcome</span></b></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and determined to do it again! This year with support from Arts Council England, David Littler made this happen as part of his </span><a href="http://www.textilefolksong.co.uk/"><b><span style="color: #666666;">Yan Van Tethera</span></b></a><span style="color: #666666;"> project in partnership with the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Its been a busy summer getting costume ready for Away with the Birds. The performance was a great success and the singers stayed dry and warm in wool and neoprene! Many thanks to Annalisa Simonella and Christie Alexander for their expert help in making ten costumes. The performance was filmed so there will be further news of where to see it again very soon! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d47; line-height: 22px;"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'The costumes are a key element of production linking ancient belief in nature to the spiritual. The colour red in Celtic culture is associated with the otherworld. The redshank is the bird who sings to the soul on its departure to the next. Nelson references red in the singers’ legs and the pleated insert on the back of the tunics. The designer cleverly combines contemporary with historical fabric in the singers’ costumes. Local Canna wool made by islander Julie McCabe is used in the tunics, whilst hi-tech red neoprene creates the legs of the garment which allows the singers to move in the water. The hoods of the woolen shrugs, somewhat monastic in nature, are based on 1930s’ patterns of fishermen hoods, providing a protection against the elements. The hood is a key part of the outfit. When drawn up over the singer’s head it aids the visual transition of human turning into bird. The detail of the reveal is key too, with knitted white inserts in the sleeves under the arms, detailed with a ‘v’ pattern</span></i></span><i style="color: #3c3d47; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">, mimicking a skein of birds in flight. Tuulikki mentions in a studio visit that she enjoys the wordplay of ‘skein’, meaning a skein of wool or birds. At the back of the charcoal grey tunics, an inserted red pleat accentuates choreographed movement'</span></i><br />
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silver from coins from New Zealand, Scotland and Australia. The coins not only
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